Sending Data to Shared Memory

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

One last question on this. Is there a way to trigger the data to populate in pilot with a button in template wizard?. This is mostly for preview purposes for the producer to see if the race items are correct.

[Novacane89 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Novacane89]

It depends on what method you used to load the shared memory data. If you used an animated button then It won't work on a preview server that only renders in singular frames. You can use OnPreview in that case to do a load. Can also try OnInit in the scene script

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

Hi Novacane,

I used the animated button method. Basically it just needs to load the data to see if the correct content is there something a producer always needs. I will look into OnPreview and test OnInit. Do you have any scripts handy?

[Novacane89 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Novacane89]

Hi Shotski,

Just copy your code used where it sets the shared memory to a font container... and paste it within a OnPreview Sub as well. I'm guessing since I don't have a preview server to test with.

Let me know if it works for you

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

Hi Novacane,

I tried putting the same scripting on the OnPreview but it did not work. Any other ideas?

Shotski.

[Novacane89 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Novacane89]

Just as a test. Try using OnExecPerField. this.geometry.text = VizCommunication.map["test"].

To optimize this you could use OnPreview to set a bool to true if Renderer is PreviewServer. Then in OnExecPerField you can do
If PreviewBool is true and not this.geometry.text = VizCommunication.map["test"] then
this.geometry.text = VizCommunication.map["test"].
end if

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

Hi Novacane,

I will give this a try and report back. Thanks

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Hi Novacane,

Still no luck with this yet. Will keep searching...

Shotski

[Novacane89 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Novacane89]

Hey Shotski,

I might be able to test with a preview server next week as well. Will post my findings here.
Cheers

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

Thanks Novacane

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Another question. The XML format for certain data has been changed. Instead of each item having its own node each item has the same node. Example of XML below:

With the structure i have set up for elections it only gets the first node. Is there a statement that i can use to get the remaining nodes? Is it using a FOR statement? I have attached the VIA file.

<root>
<SOURCE>NewsTicker</SOURCE>
<REPORT>Lottery</REPORT>
<RUN_DATE>Mon Jun 24 12:16:48 EDT 2019</RUN_DATE>
<DATA>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Powerball</game_name>
<results>03-06-11-14-66 (21)</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Lotto with XTRA</game_name>
<results>13-14-18-29-32-49</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Fantasy 5</game_name>
<results>04-20-26-27-33</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Cash 3 Evening</game_name>
<results>0-6-7</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Play 4 Midday</game_name>
<results>6-9-6-3</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Cash 3 Midday</game_name>
<results>3-3-8</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Lotto XTRA</game_name>
<results>04</results>
</Lottery>
<Lottery>
<game_name>Play 4 Evening</game_name>
<results>3-5-5-1</results>
</Lottery>
</DATA>
</root>

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

Hi Novacane,

I am trying to use the Console App you sent to read the data from the http instead of a text file. Is there a way to change that app or in the config of the app?

Thanks,
Shotski

[Novacane89 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Novacane89]

Yes that console App is reading from the source file specified in the config, Just change the "Electiondata2019.xml" bit to whatever url you desire. The config file only holds 3 variables.
host | port | sourcefile.

I used the System.Xml; library in C# to read the nodes, When I have time I will work on a little concept that can has configurable node targets.

[Shotski2 Active Forum user Find all posts View Profile Close Shotski2]

I can see it pushing the data but how do i get it to populate the template? This would be a way faster way than triggering it with a script button.